Guidance for Schools negatively impacting female teachers and pupils needs to be changed

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There’s some relevant discussion of the NASUWT Guidance for Trans Equality in Schools and Colleges in the thread about ‘Debbie Hayton Interview’ and in its focus on accommodating the wishes of TW teachers it does not consider the needs and legal protections of female teachers and pupils or safeguarding of female pupils.

www.nasuwt.org.uk/uploads/assets/uploaded/085066bb-c224-40de-b79e2a1358801ee9.pdf

A key contributor was Debbie Hayton (and I believe the only contributor named in the guidance), Debbie is on here as @DebbieInBirmingham.

Debbie now says they are clearer how their AGP affected how they approached things in the past and many of the posters on MN FWR believe their AGP informed some of the contents of the NASUWT guidance.

I hope Debbie engages here and helps change the guidance but regardless of whether Debbie help’s or not we should be looking at how to get the guidance updated so that it has less of a negative impact on female teachers and pupils.

I thought it would be useful to gather the concerns about this guidance in one place.

This is not intended to be a thread about the interview thread (TAAT), that thread is only mentioned as the prompt for separating out an important issue that was raised that warrants a thread of its own.

Previous thread on the guidance
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3938537-NASUWT-Trans-Equality-in-Schools

Current thread with a mix of discussion about the interview and the guidance www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4211107-Dr-Debbie-Hayton-interview

Question to @DebbieInBirmingham

Are you willing to work with other contributors on this board to propose changes to the guidance to take account of female sex based rights?

I would like to see a root and branch scrutiny of the appropriateness and neutrality of all the substantial sources of influence on relevant guidelines.

For me, absolutely this guidance on schools.

Beyond this, we need an evidence-based and ethical review of all the healthcare guidance, guidance to Police forces, and HR guidance in companies. Anywhere where Stonewall has had a guiding hand.